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ELLIOT, ELIOT, or
ELLIOTT, a
surname of considerable antiquity both in Scotland and England, possessed
by a border clan which resided chiefly in the eastern districts of the
border. Willis, the antiquary, mentions persons of this name having been
seated in Devonshire about the reign of King John, and having branched out
into several families, chiefly in the west of England, some of them being
of importance in the reign of Edward the First. Of the same stock is
descended the family of Eliot of Port Eliot in Cornwall, settled there
about 1540. There were also families of this name in Suffolk and Surrey.
The Scottish
Elliots appear to have been originally settled on the river and village of
Eliot of Elot, in Forfarshire, hence the word Arbirlot, a contraction of
Aber-Eliot, the river entering the sea at the parish of that name. As most
of the surnames in Scotland were local, it is probable, and this has ever
been the opinion of the Elliots themselves, that they had their name from
this river. During the reign of Robert the Third, about the year 1395,
they were induced to remove, in a body, into Liddesdale, by means of the
family of Douglas, to strengthen their interest on the borders, towards
England.
Eliott of
Lariston, in Liddesdale, was unquestionably the original stock from which
all of the name in Scotland, at least, are descended. The direct male line
failed about the beginning of the eighteenth century, and the heir female
was married to James Elliot of Redheugh, youngest son of the family of
Stobs or Stobhouse, in Roxburghshire, who continued the line, and appears
to have been the parent stock of those branches which have in modern times
rendered themselves eminent.
His son, or
grandson, was Gilbert Elliot of Stobs, commonly called “Gibby wi’ the
gouden gartins.” He married Margaret, daughter of Walter Scott of Harden,
known by the name of ‘Maggy Fendy,” and had by her six sons, namely,
William, his heir; Gilbert, of Craigend; Archibald, of Middlestead; Gavin,
of Grange, ancestor of the family of Midlem or Middlemill and Lord Minto
(see below); John, of Godistree; and James, of Redheugh, who married the
heiress of Lariston, as above stated.
The eldest son,
William Elliot of Stobs, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James
Douglas of Conons, had three sons, and of the youngest, William, Sir John
Elliot of Peebles, baronet, an eminent physician of London, of whom a
memoir is afterwards given, was heir male.
The eldest son,
Sir Gilbert Elliot of Stobs, was for his distinguished bravery made a
knight banneret in 1643, by King Charles the First in person. He was
afterwards, on 3d September 1666, created a baronet of Nova Scotia. He was
twice married. By his first wife, Isabella, second daughter of James,
master of Cranstoun, he had an only son, William; and by his second wife,
Magdaline, daughter of Sir Thomas Nicholson of Lasswade, baronet, he had
two sons and a daughter.
His eldest son,
Sir William, second baronet, died in 1694. Sir William’s son, Sir Gilbert,
third baronet, married Eleanor, daughter of William Elliot of Wells, in
Roxburghshire, by whom he had eight sons, the youngest of whom, George
Augustus, the celebrated General Elliot, was created Lord Heathfield for
his gallant defence of Gibraltar in 1787, a memoir of whom is given below.
Sir Gilbert died in 1764. His son, grandson, and great-grandson, all
succeeded to the title and estates. The latter, Sir William, sixth
baronet, by his wife, daughter of John Russell, Esq. of Roseburn, had
eight sons and two daughters, and died 14th May 1812. His
eldest son, Sir William Francis Elliot of Stobs and Wells, seventh
baronet, F.R.S., and deputy-lieutenant of Roxburghshire, married, 22d
March, 1826, the only daughter of Sir Alexander Roswell of Auchinleck,
baronet, and by her (who died in 1836) has issue. In 1818 he succeeded his
cousin, the late Right Hon. William Elliot, M.P. for Peterborough, in the
estate of Wells and othee3r lands in Roxburghshire, the second Lord
Heathfield, on whom the estates were entailed, having previously died
without issue.
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GILBERT ELLIOT,
popularly called ‘Gibbie Elliot,’ an eminent lawyer and judge, the founder
of the Minto family, was a younger son of Gawin Elliot of Midlem Mill,
above mentioned. He was born in 1651, and being educated for the
profession of the law, he at first acted only as a writer in Edinburgh, in
which capacity he was agent for the celebrated preacher, Mr. William
Veitch, and was successful in getting the sentence of death passed against
the latter commuted to banishment, in the year 1679. His own zeal for the
presbyterian cause and religious liberty caused him to be denounced by the
Scottish privy council, and 16th July, 1685, he was condemned
for treason, and forfeited for being in arms with the earl of Argyle. He
was soon, however, pardoned by the king, and in 1687 he applied to be
admitted advocate. He was one of the Scottish deputation to the prince of
Orange in Holland, to concert measures for bestowing on him the British
crown. At the Revolution the act of forfeiture against him was rescinded,
and he was appointed clerk to the privy council, which office he held till
1692. He was created a baronet in 1700, and was constituted a lord of
session, and took his seat as Lord Minto, in 1705. At the same time he
became a lord of justiciary. He died in 1718, at the age of 67.
The estate of
Minto in Roxburghshire, which originally belonged to the Turnbulls, he had
purchased some time before his elevation to the bench, from the daughters,
who were co-heiresses, of the last possessor, Walter Riddell, Esq., second
son of Walter Riddell of Newhouse. From King William he had a charter of
the lands and barony of Headshaw and Dryden.
Dr. M’Crie, in
his ‘Life of Veitch,’ relates the following amusing anecdote regarding
this eminent personage and his former client. “When Lord Minto visited
Dumfries, of which Mr. Veitch was minister after the Revolution, he always
spent some time with his old friend, when their conversation often turned
on the perils of their former life. On these occasions his lordship was
accustomed facetiously to say, ‘Ah! Willie, Willie had it no been for me,
the pyets had been pyking your pate on the Nether-Bow port!’ to which
Veitch would reply, ‘Ah! Gibbie, Gibbie, had it no been for me, ye would
hae been yet writing papers for a plack the page.’”
His son, Sir
Gilbert Elliot, the second baronet, was born in 1693 or 1694. He became a
lord of session 4th June 1726, when he also assumed the
judicial title of Lord Minto, a lord of justiciary 13th
September 1733, and was afterwards appointed lord justice clerk. He
likewise sat in parliament in 1725. Concurring in politics with the
celebrated John duke of Argyle and Greenwich, he was much in that
nobleman’s confidence, and assisted him in the management of Scots
affairs. Besides other improvements, he formed a large library at
Minto-house, such as at that period was rarely to be met with in Scotland.
He died suddenly at Minto in 1766. He is said to have been the first to
introduce the German flute into Scotland about 1725. He married Helen,
daughter of Sir Robert Stuart, baronet of Allanbank, by whom, besides
other children, he had Gilbert, the third baronet, and his sister, Miss
Jane Elliot, authoress of the ‘Flowers of the Forest,’ a memoir of whom is
given below.
Sir Gilbert,
third baronet, author of the beautiful pastoral, beginning, “My sheep I’ve
forsaken and broke my sheep-hook,” was born in September 1722. Like his
father and grandfather, he was educated for the bar, and passed advocate
10th December, 1743. He married, 15th December,
1746, Agnes Murray Kynnynmound, heiress of Melgund in Forfarshire and of
Kynnynmound in Fifeshire, by whom he had a son, the first earl of Minto,
of whom a notice follows. The father of this lady was Hugh Dalrymple,
second son of the first baronet of Hailes, who inherited the estates of
Melgund and Kynnynmound in 1736, in right of his mother, Janet, daughter
of Sir James Rocheid of Inverleith and widow of Alexander Murray of
Melgund, and he in consequence assumed the designation of Hugh
Dalrymple-Murray-Kynnynmound. He died in 1741. Sir Gilbert was a man of
considerable political and literary abilities, and filled several high
official situation. In 1754 he was elected member of parliament for
Selkirkshire, and was again returned in 1761. In 1765, on a vacancy
occurring in the representation of Roxburghshire, he resigned his seat for
Selkirkshire, and was returned member for his native county; and also
during the successive parliaments in 1768 and 1774. In 1763 he was
appointed treasurer of the navy. In April 1766 he succeeded his father in
his title and estates, and subsequently obtained the reversion of the
office of keeper of the signet in Scotland. He was also one of the lords
of the admiralty. He died at Marseilles, whither he had gone for the
recovery of his health, in January 1777. His Philosophical Correspondence
with David Hume is quoted with commendation by Dugald Stewart, in his
‘Philosophy of the Human Mind,’ and in his ‘Dissertation’ prefixed to the
seventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Sir Gilbert was the writer
of some pathetic elegiac verses on Colonel Gardiner, who fell at Preston,
beginning, “Twas at the hour of dark midnight.” He is also supposed to
have been the author of some beautiful lines in blank verse, entitled
‘Thoughts occasioned by the Funeral of the Earl and Countess of
Sutherland, at the Abbey of Holyrood House,’ 9th July, 1766,
inserted in the Scots Magazine for October of that year, where they are
attributed to a person of distinction.
His eldest son,
Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynnynmond, fourth baronet, and first earl of Minto,
a distinguished statesman, was born April 23, 1751. After receiving part
of his education at a school in England, in 1768 he was sent to Christ
Church, Oxford. He subsequently entered at Lincoln’s Inn, and was in due
time called to the bar. He afterwards visited the Continent, and on his
return was, in 1774, elected M.P. for Morpeth. At first he supported the
Administration, but towards the close of the American war he joined
himself to the opposition, and was twice proposed by his party as Speaker,
but was both times defeated by the ministerial candidate. In January 1777,
he had married Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Sir George Amyand, Bart.,
and soon after he succeeded his father as baronet. At the breaking out of
the French Revolution, he and many of his friends became the supporters of
the government. In July 1793 he was created by the university of Oxford
doctor of civil laws. The same year he acted as a commissioner for the
protection of the royalists of Toulon, in France. The people of Corsica
having sought the protection of Great Britain, Sir Gilbert Elliot was
appointed governor of that island, and in the end of September 1793 was
sworn in a member of the privy council. Early in 1794 the principal
strongholds of Corsica were surrendered by the French to the British arms;
the king accepted the sovereignty of the island; and on June 19, 1794, Sir
Gilbert, as viceroy, presided in a general convention of Corsican
deputies, at which a code of laws, modelled on the constitution of Great
Britain, was adopted. The French had still a strong party in the island,
who, encouraged by the successes of the French armies in Italy, at last
rose in arms against the British authority. The insurrection at Bastia,
the capital of the island, was suppressed in June 1796; but the French
party gradually acquiring strength, while sickness and diversity of
opinion rendered the situation of the British very precarious, it was
resolved, in September following, to abandon the island. Sir Gilbert
returned to England early in 1797, and in the subsequent October was
raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Minto, with the
special distinction accorded him of bearing with his family arms in chief
the arms of Corsica. In July 1799 his lordship was appointed envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Vienna, where he remained
till the end of 1801. On the brief occupation of office by the Whigs in
1806, he was appointed president of the Board of Control. He was soon
after nominated governor general of India, and embarked for Bengal in
February 1807. “When Sir Gilbert Elliot,” says Mr. MacFarlane, in his
History of British India, “Lord Minto had been one of the bitterest
enemies of Warren Hastings, and had taken a most active part on the
impeachment and trial of that great man. Like some of his predecessors, he
had gone out to India impressed with the notions that the true policy of
Britain was non-interference, that no attempt ought to be mad to extend
the limits of our possessions or to increase the number of our connections
with the native princes. No man had inveighed more bitterly than he
against the ambitious, encroaching, aggrandizing spirit of Mr. Hastings,
or had dwelt more pathetically on the wrongs done to the native princes.
Yet his lordship had not been many days on the banks of the Hooghly ere he
confessed that the security of our empire depended upon the actual
superiority of our power, upon the sense which the natives entertained of
that power, and upon the submissiveness of our neighbours.” Under his
administration many important acquisitions were made by the British arms.
“If conquests and annexations,” says Mr. MacFarlane, “were not made in
Hindostan, there was no lack of them in other directions. In fact, during
the peaceful administration of Lord Minto, our conquests and
operations in the Eastern Archipelago, or Insular India, were widely
extended – so widely, indeed, that the forces and resources employed in
this direction, would have made it difficult to prosecute any important
war on the Indian continent.” He accompanied in person the successful
expedition against Java in 1811. For his services in India he received the
thanks of parliament, and in February 1813 was created earl of Minto, and
Viscount Melgund. Towards the close of the same year he resigned his
office, and returned to England. His lordship died, June 21st,
1814, at Stevenage, while on his way to Scotland. He had three sons and
three daughters.
His eldest son,
Gilbert, fifth baronet, and second earl of Minto, born in 1782, married in
1806, the eldest daughter of Patrick Brydone, Esq., of Lennel, near
Coldstream, once well-known for his ‘Tour through Sicily,’ by whom he had
issue. He assumed the names of Murray and Kynnynmond by royal license, was
M.P. for Ashburton in 1806-7, and ambassador at Berlin from 1832 to 1834;
privy councillor, 1832; G.C.B., 1834; first lord of the admiralty from
September 1835 to September 1841, and lord privy seal from July 1846 to
Feb. 1852, and was sent on a mission to Italy and Switzerland in Sept.
1847. The countess died at Nerve, a short distance from Genoa, 21st
July 1853. The earl died in 1859. His eldest son, William Hugh, third
earl, born at Minto castle, Roxburghshire, in 1814, was, while Viscount
Melgund, M.P. for Hythe from 1837 to 1841, for Greenock from 1847 to 1852,
and for Clackmannan from April 1857 to May 1859; chairman of the General
Board of Lunacy for Scotland from 1857 to 1859. He married in 1844,
Emma-Eleanor Elizabeth, born in 1824, daughter of General Sir Thomas
Hislop, Baronet; issue, Gilbert John, Viscount Melgund, and three other
sons.
ELLIOT, GEORGE
AUGUSTUS, LORD HEATHFIELD,
the gallant defender of Gibraltar, ninth and youngest son of Sir Gilbert
Elliot, the third baronet of Stobs, in Roxburghshire, by Eleanor, daughter
of William Elliot, Esq. of Wells, was born at Stobs in 1718. He was
educated at home by a private tutor, and afterwards sent to the university
of Leyden, where he made great progress in classical learning. After
attending the French military school of La Fere, in Picardy, he served for
some time as a volunteer in the Prussian army. He returned home in 1735,
and became a volunteer in the 23d regiment of foot, or Royal Welsh
fusileers, then lying in Edinburgh castle, but in 1736 he joined the
engineer corps at Woolwich, where he continued till he was made adjutant
of the second troop of horse grenadiers. In May 1743 he went with his
regiment to Germany, and was wounded at the battle of Dettingen. In this
regiment he successively purchased the commissions of captain, major, and
lieutenant-colonel, when he resigned his commission as an engineer, and
was soon after appointed aide-de-camp to George the Second. In 1759 he
quitted the second regiment of horse guards, being selected to raise,
form, and discipline, the first regiment of light horse, called after him
Elliot’s. He subsequently served, with the rank of brigadier-general, in
France and Germany, from whence he was recalled, and was employed as
second in command in the memorable expedition against the Havannah. At the
peace the king conferred on his regiment the title of royals, when it
became the 15th, or king’s royal regiment of light dragoons. In
1775 General Elliot was appointed commander-in-chief of the forces in
Ireland, from whence, at his own request, he was soon recalled, and sent
to Gibraltar as governor of that important fortress.
In 1779, Spain,
in connection with France, took part in the struggle between Great Britain
and her revolted American colonies, and, even before a declaration of war,
laid siege to Gibraltar by sea and land. That fortress was defended by
General Elliot with consummate skill, during three years of constant
investment by the combined French and Spanish forces. In June 1782, the
duke de Crillon, commander-in-chief of the Spanish army, who had recently
taken the island of Minorca frm the British, arrived at Gibraltar, with a
reinforcement. All the french princes royal were in the camp. An army of
40,000 French and Spaniards were at the foot of the hill. Floating
batteries, with hanging roofs, were constructed to attack the
fortifications, so carefully and strongly built, that neither balls nor
bombs could injure them. Twelve hundred pieces of heavy ordnance were
collected, and the quantity of gunpowder was said to exceed eighty-three
thousand barrels. In Miller’s History of the Reign of George the Third is
the following account of their final discomfiture: “The Thirteenth of
September was fixed upon by the besiegers for making a grand attack, when
the new invented machines, with all the united powers of gunpowder and
artillery in the highest state of improvement, were to be called into
action. The combined fleets of France and Spain in the bay of Gibraltar
amounted to forty-eight sail of the line. Their batteries were covered
with one hundred and fifty-four pieces of heavy brass cannon. The numbers
employed by land and sea against the fortress were estimated at one
hundred thousand men. With this force, and by the fire of three hundred
cannon, mortars, and howitzers, from the adjacent isthmus, it was intended
to attack every part of the British works at one and the same instant. The
surrounding hills were covered with people assembled to behold the
spectacle. The cannonade and bombardment were tremendous. The showers of
shot and shells from the land batteries and the ships of the besiegers,
and from the various works of the garrison, exhibited a most dreadful
scene. Four hundred pieces of the heaviest artillery were playing at the
same moment. The whole peninsula seemed to be overwhelmed in the torrents
of fire which were incessantly poured upon it. The Spanish floating
batteries for some time answered the expectations of their framers. The
heaviest shells often rebounded from their tops, while thirty-two pound
shot made no visible impression upon their hulls. For some hours the
attack and defence were so equally supported, as scarcely to admit of any
appearance of superiority on e3ither side. The construction of the
battering ships was so well-calculated for withstanding the combined force
of fire and artillery, that they seemed for some time to bid defiance to
the powers of the heaviest ordnance. In the afternoon the effects of hot
shot became visible. At first there was only an appearance of smoke, but
in the course of the night, after the fire of the garrison had continued
about fifteen hours, two of the floating batteries were in flames, and
several more were visibly beginning to kindle. The endeavours of the
besiegers were now exclusively directed to bring off the men from the
burning vessels; but in this they were interrupted. Captain Curtis, who
lay ready with twelve gun-boars, advanced and fired upon them with such
order and expedition, as to throw them into confusion before they had
finished their business. They fled with their boats, and abandoned to
their fate great numbers of their people. The opening of daylight
disclosed a most dreadful spectacle. Many were seen in the midst of the
flames crying out for help, while others were floating upon pieces of
timer, exposed to equal danger from the opposite element. The generous
humanity of the victors equalled their valour, and was the more honourable,
as the exertion of it exposed them to no less danger than those of active
hostility. In endeavouring to save th lives of his enemies, Captain Curtis
nearly lost his own. While for the most benevolent purpose he was
alongside of the floating batteries, one of them blew up, and some heavy
pieces of timber fell into his boat and pierced through its bottom. By
similar perilous exertions nearly four hundred men were saved from
inevitable destruction. The exercise of humanity to an enemy under such
circumstances of immediate action and impending danger, conferred more
true honour than could be acquired by the most splendid series of
victories. It is some measure obscured the impression made to the
disadvantage of human nature, by the madness of mankind in destroying each
other by wasteful wars. The floating batteries were all consumed. The
violence of their explosion was such as to burst open doors and windows at
a great distance. Soon after the destruction of the floating batteries,
Lord Howe, with thirty-five ships of the line, brought to the brave
garrison an ample supply of every thing wanted, either for their support
of their defence.” He succeeded in landing two regiments of troops, and in
sending in a supply of fifteen hundred barrels of gunpowder.
So admirable and
complete had been the measures taken by the governor for the protection
and security of the garrison, while the latter was employed in defending
the fortress and annoying the enemy, that its loss was comparatively
light, and it was chiefly confined to the artillery corps. The marine
brigade, of course, being much more exposed, suffered more severely. In
the course of about nine weeks, the whole number slain amounted to only
sixty-five, and the wounded to three hundred and eighty-eight, and it is a
remarkable fact that the works of the fortress were scarcely damaged.
George the Third
sent General Elliot the order of the Bath, which was presented to him on
the spot where he had most exposed himself to the fire of the enemy. He
also received the thanks of both houses of parliament for his eminent
services, with a pension of fifteen hundred pounds per annum. Elliot
himself, with the consent of the king, ordered medals to be struck, one of
which was presented to every soldier engaged in the defence.
After the
conclusion of peace General Elliot returned to England, and, June 14,
1787, was created Lord Heathfield, Baron Gibraltar. In 1790 he was obliged
to visit the baths of Aix-la-Chapelle for his health, and, when preparing
to proceed to Gibraltar, died at Kalkofen, his favourite residence near
the former place, of a second stroke of palsy, on the 6th of
July of that year. His remains were brought to England, and interred at
Heathfield in Sussex. A monument was erected to his memory in Westminster
abbey at the public expense, and the king himself prepared the plan of a
monument erected in honour of him at Gibraltar. In the council chamber of
Guildhall, London, is one of the most celebrated picturers by Mr. John
Singleton Copley, father of Lord Lyndhurst, representing the siege and
relief of Gibraltar, and full of portraits, in which the figure of its
heroic defender occupies the most conspicuous place, painted at the
expense of the corporation.
[picture of
George Augustus Eliott, Lord Heathfield]
Lord Heathfield was one of the most abstemious men of his age. His diet
consisted always of vegetables and water, and he allowed himself only four
hours’ sleep at a time. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Francis Drake, of
Devonshire, by whom he had a son, Francis Augustus, who succeeded to the
title, which became extinct on his death in 1803.
ELLIOT,
JANE,
authoress of one of the three exquisite lyrics known in Scottish song by
the name of ‘The Flowers of the Forest,’ was the second daughter of Sir
Gilbert Elliot, the second baronet of Minto, and the sister of the third
Sir Gilbert, author of the fine pastoral song of “My sheep I neglected,”
and was born about 1727. Her beautiful song of ‘The Flowers of the Forest’
is the one beginning, with the fragment of the old words,
“I’ve heard them lilting, at the ewe-milking.”
And she
thus proceeds,
“Lasses a’lilting before dawn of day;
But now they are moaning on ilka green loaning;
The Flowers of the Forest are a’ wede awae.”
It is
the only thing she ever produced, and is said to have been written about
the year 1755. When first published, it passed as an old ballad, and long
remained anonymous. Burns was among the first to consider it modern. “This
fine ballad,” he said, “is even a more palpable imitation than Hardy-knute.
The manners are indeed old, but the language is of yesterday.” Sir
Walter Scott inserted it in the Border Minstrelsy in 1803, “as by a lady
of family in Roxburghshire.” It is stated that she composed it in a
carriage with her brother, Sir Gilbert, after a conversation about the
battle of Flodden, and a bet that she could not make a ballad on the
subject. She had high aristocratic notions, and as a proof of her presence
of mind, it is recorded that during the rebellion of 1745, when her father
was forced to conceal himself among Minto Crags, from an enraged party of
Jacobites, she received and entertained the officers at Minto House, and
by her extreme composure, averted the danger to which he was exposed. This
accomplished lady was never married. From 1782 to 1804, she resided in
Brown’s Square, Edinburgh, in a house which, in the progress of local
improvement, is now taken down. She died at Mount Teviot, in
Roxburghshire, the seat of her brother, Admiral Elliot, March 29, 1805.
ELLIOT,
SIR JOHN,
baronet, an eminent physician, was born at Peebles, some time in the first
half of the eighteenth century. He was of obscure parentage, but descended
of a junior branch of the Stobs family, and received a good education,
having become well acquainted with Latin and Greek. He was first employed
in the shop of an apothecary in the Haymarket, London, which he quitted to
go to sea as surgeon of a privateer. Being fortunate in obtaining
prize-money, he procured a diploma, and settled in the metropolis as a
physician. Aided by the friendship and patronage of Sir William Duncan,
uncle of the celebrated admiral, Adam, Viscount Duncan, he soon became one
of the most popular medical practitioners in London; his fees amounted to
little less than five thousand pounds a-year; and by the influence of Lord
Sackville and Madame Schwellenberg, he was, in July 1778, created a
baronet. He was appointed physician to the prince of Wales, became
intimate with persons of rank, and was the associate of the first literary
characters of the metropolis, among whom he was celebrated for his
hospitality. He died November 7th, 1786, at Brocket Hall,
Hertfordshire, from the rupture of one of the larger vessels, and was
buried at Hatfield. Dying unmarried, the baronetcy became extinct at his
death. He was the author of various popular works relative to medical
science, of which a list follows:
Philosophical Observations on the Senses of Vision and Hearing. To which
is added, A Treatise on Harmonic Sounds, and an Essay on Combustion and
Animal Heat. Lond. 1780, 8vo.
Essays on Physiological subjects. Lond. 1780, 8vo.
Address to the Public on a subject of the utmost importance to Health.
Lond. 1780, 8vo. Against Empirics.
An
Account of the Nature and Medicinal Virtues of the principal Mineral
Waters in Great Britain and Ireland, and those in most repute on the
Continent, &c. Lond. 1781, 8vo.
The Medical Picket Book. Lond. 1781, 12mo.
A
Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John
Fothergill, M.D.; with an Account of his Life, and occasional Notes. Lond.
1781, 8vo.
Elements of the Branches of Natural Philosophy connected with Medicine;
including the doctrine of the Atmosphere, Fire, Phlogiston, Water, &c.
Lond. 1782, 8vo, 2d edition, with an Appendix.
Experiments and observations on Light and Colours. To which is prefixed,
the Analogy between Heat and Motion. Lond. 1787, 8vo.
Observations on the Affinities of Substances in Spirit of Wine. Phil.
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